The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 106

Suddenly the remembrance flashed across her of the wolf whom she had put to flight, and waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow.

Who acts: remembrance, wolf · What happens: flash, put, wave, rush, have, spring · To what, where: wolf, sword, one side, blow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 flashed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 remembrance	det
3	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flashed	nsubj
4	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flashed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wolf	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flashed	obl
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 put	nsubj:pass
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wolf	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 flight	case
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rushed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rushed	cc
18	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rushed	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sword	nmod:poss
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waving	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waving	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rushed	nsubj
23	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flashed	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 violently	advmod
25	violently	violently	ADV	_	23 rushed	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 lion	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lion	det
28	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rushed	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rushed	advcl
32	barely	barely	ADV	_	33 time	advmod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 spring	mark
35	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 time	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 side	nummod
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spring	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 avoid	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	43 avoid	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 avoid	mark
42	to	to	PART	_	43 avoid	mark
43	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flashed	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 blow	det
45	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 avoid	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	past	the remembrance				across breath; of the wolf; suddenly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past · perfect · passive		the wolf			to flight	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	wave	gerund	remembrance not said here	breath's sword				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
4	rush	past	remembrance				on the lion; violently property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lion=Trajectory
5	have	past	wolf			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spring	to-infinitive	wolf not said here		one side			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory
7	avoid	to-infinitive	the remembrance not said here	the blow				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent blow=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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